I spent five straight days in July chasing down homeowners who kept saying 'the raccoon noise is probably just the pipes' or 'maybe it's the neighbor's dog' instead of just letting me check their attic. On Thursday, a lady insisted her scratching sounds were 'ghosts' for 20 minutes before I finally got her to show me the hole in her roof vent. Has anyone else hit a wall where people would rather dodge than admit there's a real problem?
I've been training for a half marathon and my Garmin kept saying I was hitting perfect splits. Then I ran a route I know is exactly 5 miles according to Google Maps and my watch said 4.3. Turns out I've been running way faster than I thought for 2 months. Has anyone else caught their fitness tracker fudging numbers like that?